Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature

Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature

My acceptance of an offer to review the Kavanagh book landed me in a
mess of puzzles. Peter Kavanagh, the poet’s brother, starts straight
off, sentence one, by announcing: ‘When I write about Patrick Kavanagh
I write as a partisan, as his alter ego, almost as his evangelist.’
And if you think that’s a dubious basis for a biography, what about
this?